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Wockhardt's former official settles insider trading case with Sebi

A former official of drug maker Wockhardt on Thursday settled with Sebi a case pertaining to alleged non-disclosure of adverse observations made by the USFDA about the company's manufacturing facility to the exchanges in 2013. Vijay Khetan, who was the compliance officer of Wockhardt, paid Rs 27.06 lakh towards the settlement charges to the capital markets regulator for the alleged violations of insider trading rules, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in an order. The order came after Khetan proposed to settle the pending proceedings through a settlement order. Sebi, through a show cause notice in September 2022, alleged that Khetan, being the compliance officer of Wockhardt at the relevant point of the time, had failed to ensure disclosure of price sensitive information immediately to stock exchanges. Therefore, he allegedly violated the code of conduct specified under the insider trading rules, as per the show cause notice. It was also alleged that Wockhardt

Sebi bans 2 individuals from securities markets, fines for insider trading

Capital markets regulator Sebi has barred two individuals from securities markets for one year and levied penalties totalling Rs 25 lakh on them for indulging in insider trading in the shares of Aptech Ltd. In addition, Sebi directed two individuals -- Lashit Lallubhai Sanghvi and his wife Neha Sanghvi -- to disgorge notional profits totalling Rs 99.72 lakh along with interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum from September 2016 till the date of actual payment. Lashit, Late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and others co-founded Alchemy Capital Management, an investment management firm, and Jhunjhunwala was the chairman/ promoter of Aptech. Besides, the regulator restrained Lashit and Neha from securities markets for one year and also barred them from dealing in the securities of Aptech for two years. The present proceeding emanated from a show cause notice issued in October 2020 against nine individuals, including Late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Lashit Sanghvi and Neha Sanghvi, following an ...

Sebi bans 3 entities from securities market for insider trading activities

Sebi has slapped penalties totalling Rs 15 lakh on three entities and also barred them from the securities markets for one year for flouting insider trading rules with respect to the shares of VSL

Sebi amends buying, selling of mutual funds under insider trading rules

Capital markets regulator Sebi has amended norms to bring buying and selling of mutual fund units under the ambit of insider trading rules. At present, insider trading rules are applicable to dealing in securities of listed companies or those proposed to be listed, when in possession of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI). The units of mutual funds are specifically excluded from the definition of securities under the rules. Sebi's latest decision follows the Franklin Templeton episode, in which the fund house's few executives were accused of redeeming their holdings in the schemes ahead of the six debt schemes shutting for redemption. "No insider shall trade in the units of a scheme of a mutual fund, when in possession of unpublished price sensitive information, which may have a material impact on the net asset value of a scheme or may have a material impact on the interest of the unit holders of the scheme," Sebi said in a notification issued on Thursday. Under the new

Titan Case: Sebi levies Rs 2 lakh fine for violating insider trading norms

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday levied a fine of Rs 2 lakh on an individual for violating insider trading norms in the shares of Titan Company Ltd (TCL). The regulator slapped a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Samik Ghosh (noticee). The transactions were carried out by the designated person/employee of TCL between April 2018 to March 2019. The order came after Sebi received a letter from TCL, wherein the company intimated to the regulator about the contravention of PIT (Prohibition of Insider Trading) rules and the company's code of conduct by some of its designated persons/employees. Thereafter, Sebi conducted an investigation into the scrip of TCL and observed several non-compliances with PIT regulations during the period from April 2018 to March 2019. During the employment, the noticee had transacted in the securities of the firm but failed to make disclosure to the firm under the insider trading norms, as per the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). The disclosure wa

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Family feud: Kirloskar Brothers Ltd refutes charges of mis-utilising funds

Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL) on Sunday refuted allegations that it had spent Rs 274 crore towards payment of professional legal expenses and consultancy charges in the personal dispute of its Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Kirloskar against his brothers Rahul and Atul. Kirloskar Pneumatic Co Ltd Executive Chairman Rahul Kirloskar and Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd Executive Chairman Atul Kirloskar had on Saturday accused KBL of "mis-utilising shareholder resources of a publicly listed company and misusing regulatory machinery" after being cleared of insider trading charges by the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). Rahul and Atul had stated that being a listed entity, KBL should justify the rationale and basis on which the company "has been spending huge amounts aggregating to approximately Rs 274 crore towards payment of professional and legal expenses" ever since their dispute arose in 2016. The brothers have been in a feud over the deed of family settlement for the assets

Kirloskar promoters get a breather in the insider trading case

The three-member SAT bench dismissed Sebi's argument that certain entities gained undue advantage of any UPSI

TMS Ep275:Credit Suisse, Natural Gas Price, NIFTY Earnings, Insider Trading

How big a threat is Credit Suisse to India and the world? How will high global natural gas prices affect India? Will banks and auto drive Nifty earnings in Q2? What is insider trading? Answers here

What is insider trading?

Sebi recently levied about Rs 6 lakh fine on three individuals for violating the insider trading norms in the shares of PVR Ltd. But what exactly is insider trading? Let's find out more in detail

PVR case: Sebi penalises 3 individuals for violating insider trading norms

Capital markets regulator Sebi has imposed fines totalling Rs 6 lakh on three individuals for violating the insider trading norms in the shares of PVR Ltd. The individuals - - Gautam Dutta (Noticee 1), NC Gupta (Noticee 2) and Pramod Arora (Noticee 3) -- were the designated persons/ employees of the company and are collectively referred to as noticees', Sebi said in an order on Friday. The order came after Sebi initiated adjudication proceedings against Dutta, Gupta and Arora while dealing in the shares of PVR allegedly in violation of PIT (Prohibition of Insider Trading) rules for the period April 2014 to March 2017. The regulator found that Dutta had conducted contra trades during the trading window closure period in the shares of PVR for which he did not take pre-clearances from the board of the company. Further, for some of the trades, he did not make disclosures, thereby violating the PIT regulations. In addition, Gupta did contra trades, for which no pre-clearance was taken f

Sebi penalises 19 persons for fraudulent trading in Global Infratech stock

Capital markets regulator Sebi has imposed a penalty of Rs 95 lakh on 19 individuals for indulging in manipulative trading in the shares of Global Infratech and Finance Limited. They have been directed to pay the penalty within 45 days, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in its order on Friday. The regulator conducted an investigation in the scrip of Global Infratech and Finance Ltd (GIFL) for the period December 2017 to February 2018 to ascertain any violations of PFUTP (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices) norms. In its probe, Sebi found that 19 persons have followed a uniform strategy of executing 3,266 trades in a substantial quantity of shares, constituting 12.86 per cent of total market volume in a synchronised manner through a large number of trades ranging from 87 to 458 trades on each day for 39 days. "Such a repeated and uniform strategy of synchronised trades involving substantial quantity of shares was followed by noticees in order t

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ED points to insider trading in NSE case, to share info with Sebi for probe

Narain, arrested a few days before the chargesheet was filed, had allegedly conspired with iSec in the tapping case from the beginning

Indian citizen pleads guilty in 1st ever crypto insider trading case in US

A 26-year-old Indian citizen has pleaded guilty in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading case in the US, in which he along with his brother and their Indian-American friend made ill-gotten profits totalling over a million dollars. Nikhil Wahi, a citizen of India and residing in Seattle, on Monday pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading in cryptocurrency assets by using confidential Coinbase information about which crypto assets were scheduled to be listed on Coinbase's exchanges. Coinbase was one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. This is the first time that a defendant has admitted his guilt in an insider trading case in the US involving the cryptocurrency markets. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Preska on December 13. In July this year, Nikhil and his elder brother Ishan, 32 along with their Indian-American friend

IIT alums became friends on Street. Then one turned on other

Former Goldman banker Brijesh Goel was arrested for insider trading. His friend, ex-Barclays trader Akshay Niranjan, is co-conspirator, who turned on his buddy

NSE shares compliance certificate on insider trading, tracks companies

The NSE last week shared compliance certificate on insider trading with companies, who have to give declaration and they are are tracking it at their end

Market regulator Sebi devices framework to curb insider trading

Initially, the new system will be applicable only for companies that are part of Sensex and the Nifty

SAT quashes insider trading charges against Biocon official Shreehas Tambe

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has quashed the insider trading charges against Shreehas P Tambe when he was senior vice president of Biocon Ltd.

Sebi penalises eight individuals for violation of insider trading norms

The transactions were carried out between April 2018 and March 2019 when they were designated employees of Titan Company